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Judiciary

This dimension sorts political institutions by their basic type, a legislature, a court or an electoral body. Wikipedia notes that politics is concerned with "resolving issues within a society via a government," work carried out through several distinct kinds of institution. Browsing by institution type keeps institutions that do the same kind of job grouped together.

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Era of Emergence
1920 1
Judiciary
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1. Constitutional court (Wikipedia)
WikipediaConstitutional court, History section
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In 1919 the First Austrian Republic established the first dedicated constitutional court, the Constitutional Court of Austria, which however existed in name only until 10 October 1920, when the country's new constitution came into effect, upon which the court gained the power to review the laws of Austria's federal states.
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